Christian-Jewish Dialogue - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor Helen Fry PhD is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London. During her research for her recent book Jews in North Devon during the Second World War (Halsgrove, 2005), she discovered that one in seven of the German and Austrian refugees who found shelter in Britain prior to 1939 enlisted in the British forces in the Second World War. It was this discovery that set her on the trail of 'The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens'. Helen is also the author of a number of articles for specialist journals on aspects of Jewish history. She lives in Devon. Klappentext This Reader brings together in one unique volume the key texts that characterize the contemporary dialogue between Jews and Christians. It will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. Perhaps the ultimate question coming out of the book is, as Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks poignantly writes in the Foreword, 'Can those who live differently live together? Can the bonds which unite us with God unite us with one another instead of setting us against one another at the cost, ultimately, of God's most precious creation, human life itself?'. Zusammenfassung Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian writers! providing an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. The book includes key topics such as anti-Semitism! Jesus! Israel! women and the Holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Helen P. Fry, Dr. Helen P. Fry, Helen P. Fry
• Assisted by: Dr Helen P. Fry (Editor), Dr. Helen P. Fry (Editor), Helen P. Fry (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1996
• EAN: 9780859895019
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-501-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Theologie, Christentum, für die Sekundarstufe II, Designed / suitable A und AS Level (England und Wales)